Technical Analysis

Technical analysis is an expression of the autistic pattern recognition gene that successful day traders have. If you don’t have the gene it looks like magic and can’t use it.

this is the real use of indicators imo. they get you to notice patterns that are actually visible the candlesticks themselves that you weren't necessarily paying attention to before. when I first learned how to trade, I would cycle through dozens of indicators trying to find shit that worked. something simple like an RSI divergence or an incoming squeeze are so painfully obvious to see happening in real time without indicators to tell you.

ive been trading off and on for a couple years and i dont even use any indicators actively anymore. sometimes ill check what the weekly 200 ma is or maybe ill check how far outside of a bolli band we are, but 9/10 times when i check on some indicator, its telling me something i already intuited based on naked price action alone. those who seek to find the magic indicator(s) rather than try to understand price itself will always be at a disadvantage (and will be more easily exploited)

visible in the candlesticks*

study moving averages. whether they are positively or negatively sloped, where price is in relation to them, where they are in relation to other MA's with different periods, and what angle they are (+90 to -90 on the Y-axis) are all relevant and mean different things when analyzing a chart. you will start to see the patterns emerge only after you have looked at a shit ton of different charts for a ton of hours like i have.

I get you, and i'm not saying that he's right, he's more right than others tough, and i guess it's a good start, then you can improve with time and patience.
You can't tell that his techniques were completely useless, maybe later you found just something that fits better with your attitude
I watch his videos but i don't take everything he says as "the truth", right now i guess it's a better truth than mine in a lot of fields, expecially money management.

I was using trendscore + ergodic oscillator, i guess i had an insight on what those squeezes were, but you just added a piece to the puzzle

Yes, looking at the angles of the MAs is a very interesting part, i noticed that they have a tremendous influence, but i'm not enough methodical, so right now i've just a clue of them.

Bad for spotting macro trends, looks like witchcraft to me.

it's not that complicated, really, a lot of it is common sense. how sharply the average price is rising or falling determines how strong the trend is, eventually becoming a spike at extreme areas of volatility. a flat average indicates a range or a sideways market. you can have a flat short term trend in a long term uptrend with a positive bias, for example. you might say something like any angle between +/-10 degrees is considered to be flat, with the +/- of the value dictating the bias.